"Esteemed audience, let's now witness an unprecedented team battle!"
"The opposing sides are the Wooden Man Squad and the Blazing Fire Squad!"
"The strength of the Wooden Man Squad is evident to all. Among them, the Wooden Man himself has achieved eleven consecutive victories, giving the impression of not having exerted his full strength! Mu Zhan's personal power is supreme; in previous team battles, he almost single-handedly swept away the opposing teams!"
"However, they now face a formidable challenge! All members of the Wooden Man Squad possess tree martial spirits, of the plant element. Today, their opponents' martial spirits are all of the flame element!"
"Innate elemental disadvantages, ten consecutive victories for both sides. Now, who will emerge victorious? Let us fully enjoy the outstanding performances of both teams!"
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A heavy fist slammed against the wall, Mu Zhan's face was extremely grim.
Inside the private room, he furiously roared at Wang Zhong, "I don't understand, Wooden Man, why did we have to lose to such a team!"
"Mu Zhan, calm down first. The opposing team's members are all flame-attribute martial spirit possessors. We are at a disadvantage in terms of elements, so losing was inevitable," Mu Yue said calmly, trying to comfort the enraged Mu Zhan.
"Nonsense!"
"Elemental suppression! With those pathetic martial spirits, you dare talk about elemental suppression! If it were truly elemental suppression, we would have been burnt to ashes long ago!"
Mu Zhan stared at Wang Zhong, who was currently representing the Wooden Man, with a look of extreme displeasure.
Wang Zhong shrugged indifferently at Mu Zhan's gaze and said, "We lost, so we lost. Can you blame me for that!"
"You are the main body, all our power is given by you. If you had given us your full power, how could we have lost!" Mu Zhan glared, his personality, as conceived by Wang Zhong, possessed extreme arrogance and excessive pride. He could not accept losing at all.
"Isn't this also a loss! Our coordination was already problematic. The strongest among us, you, Mu Yue, Mu Ren, and I, were completely entangled and unable to break free."
"Mu Yan, Mu Yuan, Mu Shuai lacked sufficient strength and were knocked off the stage! Facing seven opponents with four people, with my soul power, if I let you all unleash your full strength, I could at most last for the time it takes an incense stick to burn before my soul power would be exhausted. Continuing would eventually lead to victory, but for me, it would simply be a waste of time!"
"Moreover, the fundamental purpose of team battles is to train our coordination, not merely to win!"
Wang Zhong sat on the side of the sofa and sighed heavily.
Wang Zhong was extremely proficient in controlling his wood clones. Coordination was merely a superficial aspect; the root cause was Wang Zhong's mistakes in judging the situation, grasping the battle progress, and issuing commands.
In the team battles of the past ten days, it was almost always enough for him, Mu Zhan, and Mu Yue to act, and they could sweep away the opponents. However, after achieving ten consecutive victories, the first opponents they encountered truly showcased the initial power of team battles. The Wooden Man Squad, lacking much coordination experience, ended with Wang Zhong conceding.
In the battle against the Blazing Fire Squad, following Wang Zhong's planned script, Mu Zhan still charged in alone to disrupt the enemy formation. Then, the Wooden Man, Wang Zhong himself, and Mu Ren would attack from the flanks, while Mu Yue and the remaining three members would find openings to provide support and strike.
The first two steps were executed perfectly under Wang Zhong's control. However, the problem arose with the four members led by Mu Yue, who were tasked with supportive assassinations. Wang Zhong's judgment of the situation and his action commands contained major strategic errors.
The Wooden Man, Mu Ren, Mu Zhan, and Mu Yue were trapped by control-type soul masters. Although they could break free, it would take some time. Within that time, the Blazing Fire Squad suddenly focused their attacks on Mu Yan, Mu Yuan, and Mu Shuai. These three were primarily support-oriented and the weakest. At this moment, Wang Zhong's control also faltered.
He only thought about getting the four trapped individuals to break free quickly, without considering letting the other three use their strengths to stall for time. He even had them confront the attacks of seven opponents head-on, resulting in the three being knocked out of the arena by a combined attack.
At this point, with four against seven, Wang Zhong's own strength combined with the three wood clones, if unleashed without reservation, could still achieve victory. However, Wang Zhong conceded on the spot because this was not what he desired.
Team coordination.
He forgot that the strengths and focuses of the seven wood clones were different!
In the eyes of others, the Wooden Man Squad had coordination issues. But for Wang Zhong, there were too many problems.
Control, decision-making, judgment, timing, feasibility, contingency measures... all these exposed the significant flaws in Wang Zhong as the controller.
Under these various issues, even if Wang Zhong had won by unleashing his full strength, losing felt more satisfying.
The purpose of the Wooden Man Squad's team battles was to hone Wang Zhong's control and judgment, not to win a single team battle. Victory was merely an add-on.
Besides, his opponents were a team from the Spirit Hall Academy that two Pontiffs greatly admired.
Their strength and coordination would only be more terrifying and powerful. If they could win with just that little bit of short-term burst, they would never have stood at the academy for years with a perfect team battle record.
Recalling what Bibi Dong had told him, Wang Zhong sighed heavily. This was just an Iron Soul Fighting Team, and it had already made him realize so many of his own issues. Not to mention far away, but the goal of a Gold Soul Fighting Team itself – there were nine Gold Soul Fighting Soul Emperor teams in the Great Soul Fighting Arena!
The Wooden Man Squad had to defeat one of them and replace them to obtain the Gold Soul Fighting Team emblem.
According to the rules, regardless of strength, one could obtain various levels of Soul Fighting emblems. However, this phenomenon was merely a fanciful delusion.
Take an Iron Soul Fighting Team for example. In this tier, it encompassed soul masters of all levels, from Soul Scholar to Titled Douluo. Anyone who had just registered could be considered an owner of a Bronze Soul Fighting emblem.
To advance, one had to participate in one duel after another against opponents of equal strength and accumulate enough points. This rule seemed normal, but upon closer examination, it was entirely flawed.
For instance, how many opponents could a Titled Douluo have? Would you genuinely give them an Iron Soul Fighting emblem? Was the strength and dignity of a Titled Douluo really that worthless?
This was entirely impossible!
Therefore, strength also became a reference for the distribution of Soul Fighting medals. Titled Douluo would receive the absolute top-tier Diamond Soul Fighting emblem.
A total of nine badge levels corresponded to nine soul master tiers. You would receive a corresponding Soul Fighting emblem based on your strength.
Diamond badges for Titled Douluo, Ruby badges for Soul Douluo, Sapphire badges for Soul Sage, and Purple-Gold Soul Fighting badges for Soul Emperors. For these powerhouses, as long as they were willing to come to the Soul Fighting Arena, the badges would be presented on the spot.
Only soul masters below Soul King would start accumulating points from an Iron Soul Fighting emblem to advance!
Under these conditions, coupled with the Soul Fighting rules of the Soul Fighting Arena, the strength level became almost irrelevant, and the emblem symbolizing the Soul Fighting level instead became the most crucial indicator for judging an opponent's strength at this time.
The higher the badge level and the more points accumulated, the more terrifying their strength would be among peers!
Using Wang Zhong's strength as a Soul Emperor for the Wooden Man Squad as an example, it meant that their current cumulative strength as a Soul Emperor team was in the lowest tier. Above them were Bronze Soul Fighting teams, Silver Soul Fighting teams, and Gold Soul Fighting teams!
Their team strength, compared to Wang Zhong's Wooden Man Squad, represented a leap in overall power. Although they were all Soul Emperors, the difference in combat power was like that between heaven and earth.
Just like Kuang Xiong, Li Da Niu, and Wang Zhong, all being Soul Emperors, the difference in their strength was not a small matter; it was a tiered progression.
Soul Master teams were the same.
After hearing Wang Zhong's words, Mu Zhan sighed heavily, extremely unwilling.
He had been blinded by his unwillingness to admit defeat earlier. Now, with a calm mind, he realized that the situation was indeed as Wang Zhong said. If it dragged on until the main body's soul power was depleted and they were unable to move, they would still lose, and it was even possible that the flaw in the wood clones would be discovered.
"But this team battle loss, a one-point deduction in our score is a minor issue; the interruption of our ten-game winning streak is the major one."
"With this interruption, our accumulated points will have to be added one by one again. This is too much of a waste of time."
"Who knows how long it will take to reach the Gold Soul Fighting emblem!"
Mu Zhan leaned back powerlessly on the sofa, his tone filled with unwillingness and fatigue. He had never imagined that such a small team battle could be so troublesome.
"How long it takes depends on the degree of coordination between us. It's fine if it's a little slower in the early stages."
"After all, we are one. As long as we refine our mutual coordination, by the later stages, our seven-person team, unified as one, with a shared consciousness, will be unstoppable."
"We just need to continuously optimize and improve the problems we've discovered. Because no team can defeat us once our coordination is perfected!"
"No matter how ingenious or synchronized their seven-person unity is, can it compare to our true unity as seven in one!"
Mu Ren stood by the floor-to-ceiling window, his expression still cold, but the confidence in his words was extremely strong.
Six clones, including Wang Zhong's own body, were controlled by the same consciousness. This was true unity of disparate bodies and minds.
With these words, Mu Zhan's agitation and unwillingness subsided. The others also closed their eyes and contemplated silently, reflecting on the shortcomings of the previous match and considering how to adjust in the future.
Although these matters were being contemplated by Wang Zhong alone, they still exhibited lively expressions of thought. This showed how refined and terrifying Wang Zhong's clone control had become.
In terms of appearance, demeanor, actions, and speech, the individuals had already become distinctly separate from Wang Zhong. Mu Zhan's stubbornness, Mu Yue's composure, Mu Ren's confidence, and the traits displayed by the other members had all reached a level of verisimilitude.
It was now impossible to find flaws in Wang Zhong's wood clones by examining minor details!